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Thursday, August 15, 2013

Theme Thursday - Faith

My first thought for this theme was to drive on over to the Poor Clare Monastery by our house and take a picture of Jesus in the monstrance. Believing that that is really Jesus in there takes true faith.

However, I then had another idea and it was the picture above. Having a large family in the world today takes a lot of faith. Faith that God will take care of all of us. Faith that we will be given the grace to do a good job as parents. Faith that they'll all grow up to be faith-filled adults.

Just a technical note; there is one young man in the above picture who is not mine - he's Ms 21 yo's boyfriend. Letting your daughter bring her boyfriend with you on vacation takes faith - no, I'm just kidding, he's a really nice young man and we all love him to pieces :)

4 comments:

You're so right about the large family and faith. With large families it just doesn't seem to be a choice though. Faith is just there. At least, that is what I have seen of all large families I've met.

It takes a lot of faith to have a big family. I'm one of 11 kids and my parents leaned on faith a million times throughout our childhood. We are constantly trying to discern having more children and it can be scary. Your family is lovely! Thanks for sharing them with us.